Do you guys honestly think that if something is official it is good? Most official things are garbage when it comes to Pokémon, and it's clear GF doesn't knows shit about their own franchise.
At least personally, I only bring it up in the context of how seriously they take themselves.What they do isn't crazy, fan metagames aren't a new thing, it's the way that they do it that's fun to mock
>>58733616"Competitive" singles is for poltroons who are too afraid to navigate an actual dynamic gamestate
>>58733657Hi Verlisify
>>58733657Maybe make the games also focus on doubles if you want it to be the format of choice.
>>58733616> Do you guys honestly thinkYou’re on /vp/
>>58733616I find it funny how obsessed this place is about it
I don't understand how people even perceive it as such. It's literally a format with rules and tierings made by the fanbase.
>Try to talk about game in terms of game design and mechanics>Some retard starts crying about how the Pokemon/mechanics don't favor Gen V singles strategiesIt's a reminder not an insult
>>58733616Smogon is like the My Immortal of competitive battling.
>>58733616It's because people who obsess over Smogon don't even play their house rules formats with modded hard rules, they just seethe over tier lists and damage calculators.
>>58733616>Why is "fanfic meta" an insult?because retards like (You) keep pretending it has relevance to the actual game
>>58733657>dynamicit always boils down to "Are they gonna randomly predict for muy mindgaymes" lmao
>>58734034sounds like /vp/ all right
I think the games have focused so much on VGC for the past 5 generations that even playing singles is to forsake most of the strategies the games have to offer.There are so many strategies and board states that exist in VGC which can't possibly exist in singles because the moves and abilities aren't useful in singles. The battles themselves happen much quicker because there are twice as many things occurring at any given time. A lot happens in a single turn.
>>58734154If this were true, we'd be seeing them actually focus on double battles in the main campaign, so players can actually get a taste of Doubles Strategies without being cast into a trial by fire via PVP.SV DLC was really close to doing this, but because it'd been a year, everyone just steamrolled everything without deeper thought because all of their mons were level 100 and the DLC teams were <88.
>>58733674>>58733696>>58734093I've never played either.
>>58734158The campaign is training wheels, who cares what it does?Are you going to be offended if Gen 10 is all double battles? That's throwing players in the deep end, it's probably not a good idea when single battles is dirt simple in comparison.
>>58734154they are just different formats. there are moves and abilities that aren't really useful in doubles either. because games are longer and there is a lot more focus on switching, things like pivoting and hazards are a lot more importantdoubles is a lot more watchable, which is the only reason why it's the official format
